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Paugus Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $1,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION | $500 |
| LAKES REGION CONSERVATION TRUST | $500 |
| MIDDLE EASTERN CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $300 |
| MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER | $250 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $250 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $250 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $250 |
| PEN AMERICA | $250 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $250 |
| COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES | $200 |
| INTEGRATED MEDICINE FOR THE UNDERSERVED | $200 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $200 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OFORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +29%
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History8× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +20%
- LRLakes Region Conservation Trust9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESSone grant, 2017 · $1k
- TCThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Incone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -17%
- CICOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +197%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Lakes Region Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds PEGGY BROWNING FUND ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TAMWORTH COMMUNITY NURSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Paugus Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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